A Cybersecurity Comedy: Protecting Businesses One Laugh at a Time!
Cybersecurity too often seems like a stress inducing serial murder show. While it is serious business, adding a dose of humor will make it more memorable.
11 Reasons to Upgrade Aging Hardware and/or Software
There are many reasons to consider upgrading aging hardware and software including better efficiency, reliability, performance, happier staff, security, and more.
CyberHoot Newsletter – July 2022
Restaurant Cloud-based POS Systems Hacked Multiple POS systems used by restaurants all over the world (MenuDrive, HarborTouch, and InTouchPOS) have been hacked enabling hackers to collect credit card details on …
CyberHoot Newsletter – June 2022
Ransomware Insurance: Prescriptive and Restrictive Insurers are drafting more restrictive and prescriptive insurance policy requirements designed to reduce the number of claims and better protect themselves and the companies they …
CyberHoot Newsletter – October 2021
Outlook “Autodiscover” Leaking Passwords Cybersecurity experts at Guardicore published a report on security concerns in Microsoft’s “Autodiscover” feature. In 4 months time, they collected over 372,072 domain credentials and ~100k in …
97% Top International Airports Fail Cybersecurity Test
A few weeks ago a report was published by a cybersecurity firm, ImmuniWeb. This report revealed that only three of the world’s top 100 international airports passed their basic high …
Trello Exposes Personally Identifiable Information
Trello, the platform used by many businesses for organizing to-do lists and coordinating team tasks has recently exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) data of its users. The finding was …
Jeff Bezos and the WhatsApp Security Flaw
Knowing how to protect yourself and your critical accounts from compromise is becoming ever more important. Learn what can happened to and setup 2FA into all of your online critical accounts.
CyberHoot Newsletter – Volume 3
In this monthly Newsletter, we provide you a look at the previous month of Cybersecurity news with some analysis, some new Cybersecurity terms, and more…
Network Based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)
A Network Based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), or Network Based IDS, is security hardware that is placed strategically to monitor critical network traffic. Traditional Network Based IDS analyzes passing network …
HowTo Add CyberHoot Users with a CSV File
This support HowTo video outlines how to upload users by creating a CSV file and uploading it to CyberHoot for a bulk upload of users. This process is easier to …
Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities
Infrequently, Microsoft released critical vulnerability alerts and patches that are so important to know about, that you should stop what you’re doing and review them and plan to patch as soon as possible. This is one of those times.
Root Cause Analysis
A root cause seeks to examine all the potential causes for a major incident at a business and select the root cause from them. Then it seeks to propose mitigating controls to prevent the root cause from recurring.
CyberHoot Newsletter – Volume 1
The Department of Homeland security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin on Jan. 4th, 2020. This agency only issues such warnings when there is a credible, specific and impending terrorism threat against the United States. In this case, their warning focused primarily upon cybersecurity attacks against US government and business entities in retribution for the killing of Iranian IRGC-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Iran has a history of cyber-attacks against US Businesses and government entities. Companies should be on high alert and remind employees to be especially vigilant in email phishing attacks amongst other cybersecurity best practices.
Nation State Hackers
Nation State hackers are the best of the best. Their attacks are evolving and are not often seen or discussed in the day-to-day world because attribution of an attack to …
Deepfakes: Hackers Newest Trick
Technology is always improving and hackers are always finding novel ways to exploit those advances. Cyber security analysts believe new attacks are on the way next year with some powerful …
RYUK Ransomware infects 110 Healthcare Facilities
This past Thanksgiving weekend, 110 healthcare facilities were infected by a ransomware attack on their IT provider. Virtual Care Provider Inc. (VCPI), provides security, data hosting and access management services …
Google Chrome Zero Day in the Wild
CyberHoot has learned there is a new Zero-Day vulnerability in Chrome actively being exploited in the Wild. Your computer can be compromised just by visiting a malicious website. That is …
MSP Attacks increasing but their Ability to Defend is Lacking
The FBI issued a stern warning in February 2019. They witnessed multiple Managed Service Providers successfully attacked by advanced hacking tools and organizations. This article details what’s happened since then. …